I haven’t written much about my current solo game progress, largely because most of it’s been very, very boring. That’s not to say I’m having a dull time of it, just that there’s not much to report here which is worth the reading.
I’m making progress, though.
To sum up:
- I’m working on what I’m calling the “Final Destination” project, a factory which makes all four of the last space elevator shipment products in one location. (This may not have been my wisest decision.) Remember the flowchart? Yeah, I’m referencing that a lot.
- To do this, I needed to make a whole bunch of new factories making enough of things I already made but in too small of quantities previously. For instance, I lost most of September to building a high-output Battery facility.
- The rail network needed expansion and better interconnection to effectively route materials to-and-fro.
- Building the FD site the way I’ve chosen to has resulted in the occasional “whoops, that’s not gonna work,” so I spend a lot of time figuring out some other better way.
Today I can happily report that the initial production run of Magnetic Field Generators has commenced. Delivery is a whole other issue, as the receiving drone ports at the Space Elevator simply do not exist yet, but when the time comes I’ll have a bunch of parts ready to send up.
Next session I’ll need to decide which of the other three products to proceed with. Part of me wants to jump right into the Nuclear Pasta because that’s what uses those super-cool Particle Accelerators… but given their positioning (up above the other three production areas) it’d be smarter to complete the other two first. So I’ll probably do that.
I’m honestly not sure what I’m going to do once this project is all finished. Maybe it’ll be time for a fresh start. Maybe something slightly less dependent upon rail networks.
Maybe.
